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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23 and 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the men at the graveyard for?
(a) to bury treasure
(b) to bury a body
(c) to steal a tombstone
(d) to rob a grave

2. Who breaks the rules of the game?
(a) Joe, by smashing the tick
(b) Tom, by playing with the tick during Joe's turn
(c) Tom, by letting the tick out the window
(d) Joe, by dropping the tick on the floor

3. What do Tom and Huck take as an omen that they will die?
(a) a fox eating a rat
(b) an owl's cry
(c) a black cat yowling
(d) a stray dog howling

4. What does Tom say the sound of the wind in the trees might be?
(a) spirits of the dead
(b) devils coming to get their own
(c) witches' familiars gathering
(d) scavengers coming for the corpses

5. What role do Tom and Joe Harper take in the battle?
(a) opposing generals
(b) allied generals
(c) general and president
(d) general and lieutenant

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the stranger do through the window while Tom stands outside his house?

2. What does Polly say that Tom should have done?

3. What tonic does Aunt Polly give Tom to bring him out of his depressed mood?

4. What do the men fight over?

5. What kind of craft do the townspeople take onto the river to look for the boys?

(see the answer key)

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